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Jeremy W. Rusk, the director of Harvard's Center for Lifelong Learning, has been appointed associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), the school announced yesterday...
...Rusk will begin part-time work at the GSAS's Byerly Hall offices this week and will make the final transition to full-time work in March...
...authors are Dean Rusk, then Secretary of State; Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense; George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State; Roswell L. Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Theodore Sorensen, special counsel to the President; and McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for national security affairs. Their analysis...
...allies, and we could not put ourselves in the position of appearing to trade their protection for our own. But in fact President Kennedy had long since reached the conclusion that the outmoded and vulnerable missiles in Turkey should be withdrawn. In the spring of 1961 Secretary Rusk had begun the necessary discussions with high Turkish officials. These officials asked for delay, at least until Polaris submarines could be deployed in the Mediterranean. While the matter was not pressed to a conclusion in the following year and a half, the missile crisis itself reinforced the President's convictions...
...Presidents at first tend to be impatient with diplomatic protocol, indifferent to these rituals that prevent nations from constantly bickering over trivialities. "Presidents have to learn that ambassadors to Washington from other nations actually have a right to see them," Rusk says. Nixon loved protocol that was glamorous, but often balked at routine receptions and meetings. Kissinger soon learned that if events were simply inserted into the President's schedule, the quiet authority of the printed word subdued his protests and Nixon performed the required rituals without complaint...